Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-17
Sir Morrell Talks Freely on Various
Topics Of Interest.
CASE OF THE CROWN PRINCE.
Possibilities and Probabilities OF the
Outcome OF the Disease-Misstate-
ments of Rival Surgeons Re.
futcd-FOrcign News.
A Talk with Mackenzie.
tCopmight 1857 by James Gordon Benne

stepped into the train with hlm at Nlnkmlg-
liza To explain this remark of the great
specialist, should perhaps observe, he has
q horror of intcrviewers Repeated attempts
TO capture him have been repelled with loss
and don't mind confcssng that few days
before boarded him in the rapid yesterday,
] had been courteously but firmly informed
that Sir Morrell could not say anything for
publication.
81 have made up my mind not to be inter
viewed on America" said the doctor last
Sunday my insinuating that his views on
various matters would be Of extreme interest
TO humanity. On my next essay need not
say explained that, practically, Sir Morrell
was in America with the Herald correspond
ent. He saw the point and kindly yielded.
A very interesting man, this much-praised,
much-abused doctor. Not a cut-and-dre
conventional phillistne physician, such as
YOU see by hundreds. No, "a modern
eclectic, amable rather Bohemian little man
with an open mind in more than scientific
matters. Possessed of artistic taste, much
human, and, at bottom, as ne afterwards con
fesscd great fondness for the journalists who
worried him.
81 often think" said he, ''that if had not
been specialist should have taken to Jour
naism myself, but don't regard the profess
sion as good enough for an active intelligent
man It's very hard work and the pay is not
lucrative. Sir Morrell settled himself in his
scat, lit u stramouium cigarette and coughed
slightly.
"Would you kindly put that window up!"
said he. "You may have noticed that my
voice is rather asthmatic.n
81 have described him already in one of
my letters from San Reno, so l need not
repeat myself Imagine him with a thick
warm ovcrcoat wrapped about him, AS he
drew "a bearskin rug round his legs and with
an amused smile on his face, waited further
interviewing developments"
''How came you to take your profession,
Sir Morrell." said |.
"Well, began an insurance Office in Corn
hl," said the doctor, "but soon threw it up
for medicine. ] always had a taste for it.
My father was doctor"
How came you to be called by the crown
prince."
81 owe it entirely to my big book on dis
eases of the throat and nose II took me
twelve years to write it, and, bye the bye, l
found as I wrote, my experience widened so
much that l was continually compelled to
alter it. / was behind my own experience.
This made me known as an authority in my
own line and subsequently Professor Berg
mann advised my being called to the prince.
Ranchfuss and Mackenzie are great authori-
ties on the throat, said Bergman, but Mac
kenzie has longer experience.
attribute much of my general
success" continued Sir Morrel, ''to
my ability for working under all circum-
stances. | have "a great power of concen-
tration. ] can drop subject any moment
and take up something quite different. You
might add that, though of Il very nervous
tempermant, can keep my nerves perfectly
under control"
'You must have felt rather nervous when
you operated on the crown princoln
''Not the least. Why should 1. Had l
been a German might have been ne rvous.
No doubt / should have been, had / been
operating on his throat The German doctors
were all too tmid to operate on the crown
prince"
you have been great traveller, | be
lieve."
'Ycs, l have seen most of the
countries of Europe and part o.
Africa and have been all over America.
have visited almost every mineral spring ant
health resort in the world. You see, thougl
travelled partly for pleasure, had to thinl
of my patients, too. When ! was IN tn,
states was interviewed The first question
put to me was, as n rule: What do you thinl
of our countryp The next was: ''What d,
you think of our catarrhr answered botl
questions together by saying thought it wa
fine country for catarrh. l saw a grea
deal of it about there by the splitting about il
all directions, you know" continued the doc
tor, explaining lis meaning
by this time we We're nearing Nice. ST
Morrell called halt for refreshments a
Nice. He was assailed by a clever Londo
correspondent who cornered him on the ste
of his carriage for a few minutes while ha
temporarily retired to the telegraph Office
The clever correspondent presently yretreated
also in the direction of the telegraph Office
and for time the great specialist buried him
self in pile of papers The train rolled O.
again to Cannes, where DR.. Franck had
short talk with the doctor, After few miI
utes more resumed the conversation.
"You mentioned Bcrgmann just now,
see he has been attacking you very savagcly
according to the papers, So saying,
handed Sir Morrell u copy of Paris new
paper announcing that Profs Tobod an
Bergman had reafirmed the correctness
the diagnose they made last May and ha
accused him of having adopted treatmei
that would have been fatal to the prince"
'lopolu nave stlu tilut, TtIIltu ~
Mackenzie, "but l don't believe Bergman
did His attitude towards me has alwus
been courteous"
'ierc is something more though" insii
uated. 'lt is asserted that in cutting out
fragment OF the growth in the princes thro;
you wounded the healthy side of the glotti
and that it is not certain whether the lg
mcnt analysed by Prof Nrchow was II
healthy or the diseased onen
That last part is nonsense. The iragmel
that Virchow dissected was from the di
eased side, for no such things as he doscrib,
exist in u state of health" Besides, Il
operation was performed three times, a,
each time the morbid character Of the fra
ment was recognized And so, If on one o
casion it is true that the mucous mcmbral
was supcrfcially scrapcd, il is a law ofnatu
that the two vocal chords come togeth
directly anything is introduced into the lung
mud it is almost unavoidable for the force
net TO scrape the other side.
Sir Morreli gave me to understand tnat
was perfectly careless of the howls OF Il
German press--as careless Us he was OF the